Westerners Are Changing "Farsi" into "Persian"
December 7, 2003

Originally at: http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101%257E9685%257E18036

"...In Iran, they keep watch on The Eagle. No sooner had I used the word "Farsi" in my "Dark Pergola" chapter on Sunday than I received a clarification from Pejman Akbarzadeh, member of Artists without Frontiers, Tehran chapter. "I would like to point out that Farsi, originally Parsi, is the native name of our language," he explained, "and Persian is its English equivalent. The native name of the German language is Deutsch but we never use 'Deutsch' in place of German in English. You are aware that all international broadcasting centers, like the BBC and VOA, have a 'Persian Service,' not a 'Farsi' service."